143 So. 2d 528 - Perry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2000
9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Eisenstein · Davis v. State · Armstrong v. State · Acree v. State · 116 So. 2d 626 - Piccott v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The State of Florida has long adhered to the `right and wrong' test for the determination of the sanity of a criminal defendant; the test is also referred to as the M'Naghten Rule. See Piccott v. State, Fla. 1959, 116 So.2d 626 ; Davis v. State [ 44 Fla. 32 , 32 So. 822 ], supra. This jurisdiction does not recognize that phase of insanity denominated under the title of `irresistible impulse' or `moral insanity' as a defense to a criminal prosecution. The only issue presented under the defense of legal insanity is whether the accused, at the time of the unlawful act alleged to have been committed by him, had a sufficient degree of reason to know that he was doing an act that was wrong. Griffin v. State, Fla.App. 1957, 96 So.2d 424 ; Brock v. State, Fla. 1954, 69 So.2d 344 ; Crews v. State, 1940, 143 Fla. 263 , 196 So. 590 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Anger may vitiate prudence; yet it does not constitute insanity. Sanity [sic] must be caused by mental disease. If the defendant has the capacity of distinguishing between right and wrong as to the particular act at the time of the killing, mere emotional insanity or passion or frenzy produced by anger, jealousy or other passion will not excuse him; nor can he discharge himself from responsibility for the homicide by showing that he did the act under the influence of an irresistible impulse. If a person had the capacity of distinguishing between right and wrong, as to a particular act, at the time he does it, moral insanity will not excuse.” (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marshall v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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